Food: A Cultural Culinary History

respect and love, not by a physical building where they sacrifi ce animals. In other words, the rituals seem to have become empt ...

Lecture 10: Early Christianity—Food Rituals and Asceticism propose breaking away completely and forming an entirely new religion ...

questions. At this point, Jesus is being called “king of the Jews,” so they hand him over to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, ...

Lecture 10: Early Christianity—Food Rituals and Asceticism Food Rituals in the Early Church  The most important food ritual th ...

Chadwick, Western Asceticism. Feeley-Harnik, The Lord’s Table. Grimm, From Feasting to Fasting. Hill, Eating to Excess. Shaw, Bu ...

Lecture 11: Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne ............................................ L ...

not nomadic. They did practice agriculture. Their culture values strength, courage, and success in battle above anything else.  ...

Lecture 11: Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne wild fruits, and letting their herds of pigs forage for themselves in the forests ...

the 4th century. The fasts are not that burdensome for southern European Christians, who can easily get vegetables and fi sh to ...

Lecture 11: Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne  The system of rule they initiated was the ancestor of feudalism and had lots o ...

a sophisticated cuisine. There was a very small group of nobles, and everyone else were serfs. There was no social mobility at a ...

Lecture 11: Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne wired in us to enjoy eating this way? Or have we become so acculturated by cutler ...

Islam—A Thousand and One Nights of Cooking .............................. Lecture 12 W hile Europe was languishing in the so-cal ...

Lecture 12: Islam—A Thousand and One Nights of Cooking  Unlike the founders of most religions, we actually know a great deal a ...

complicated. Pork is forbidden in Islam as in Judaism, but no other meats, except birds of prey and carnivorous animals, are for ...

Lecture 12: Islam—A Thousand and One Nights of Cooking the ninth month on a lunar calendar. In many places, they prepare very el ...

Persian Culture and Cuisine  As Islam expanded, it took over regions that were part of the Byzantine Empire, whose people were ...

Lecture 12: Islam—A Thousand and One Nights of Cooking spinach. Eggplant is also very common. Fruit, such as apricots, peaches, ...

Baghdadi Recipe This recipe is an adaptation of one appearing in the Kitab al-Tabikh (“Book of Dishes”) by Muhammad b. al-Hasan ...

Lecture 13: Carnival in the High Middle Ages Carnival in the High Middle Ages................................................... ...